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How has depression affected your sleep habit?

User Profile: River
River September 26th, 2018

Depression can have serious and mild affects in our sleeping patterns or habit.

How has depression affected your sleep pattern or habit?

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User Profile: Madaraismyspiritanimal
Madaraismyspiritanimal September 25th, 2019

I've had a period where I just wanted to avoid human contact as much as possible, so my sleep schedule basically reversed, waking most of the night and sleeping through most of the day, sometimes sleeping up to 12 hours at a time.

I slowly got out of that habit when I started therapy, but still had a lot of difficulty waking up, no matter how long I'd slept.

After a while of therapy I started antidepressants, and the one I'm on right now makes it so I hardly sleep. So I need to take an antipsychotic in combination with it. Now I usually sleep 6 to 7 hours a night and have less difficulty waking up

User Profile: SailingFox
SailingFox October 15th, 2019

Now that it

User Profile: KelciH
KelciH October 15th, 2019

Back when I was in like, 7th grade, as soon as I got home from school, I went to my room and crashed. Usually, my mom had to het me up. Ten, that same night, I would be up for several hours... That was a repeated cycle every time, up until I hit 9th grade... And I wasn't diagnosed with depression until January of 2018.

User Profile: feelitinyourbones
feelitinyourbones October 15th, 2019

I pretty much do what "depression" allows me to do, I have periods when I can not sleep due to gloomy thoughts anf periods when I sleep for days just to sleep and not do anything...

User Profile: AngelWytch
AngelWytch October 15th, 2019

Either I sleep 4-5 hours and am awake for 20-25 hours straight, or getting almost 14 hours of sleep still doesn't feel like enough and I'm groggy the whole time. I fell asleep at 3am, woke up at 8am, it's now 12:30 and I wanna sleep cause I'm tired, but I'm not tired enough. I have to literally start losing balance before I can actually sleep any, and even then I need some kind of background noise playing like gentle music or a waterfall during a thunderstorm.

User Profile: reservedBalloon9011
reservedBalloon9011 October 18th, 2019

I keep on sleeping whenever I don't have any work and when I wake up I feel heavy. I spend my day in bed...

User Profile: Evenstar8
Evenstar8 October 18th, 2019

When I'm dealing with a relapse into depression I stay up super late into the night doing meaningless stuff and then wake up so late that my sleep schedule is completely off, and the sleep is never high quality. But I stay in bed for hours falling in and out of that unsatisfying sleep.

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User Profile: barncat
barncat October 19th, 2019

@Evenstar8 - Boy that sounds familiar- up too late watching Netflix- then cant get out of bed in the morning. Am finally falling asleep with less mental chatter- and able to go back to sleep after waking up in the middle of the night. FINALLY.

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User Profile: SailingFox
SailingFox October 20th, 2019

I think I

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User Profile: Oneminutesober127
Oneminutesober127 October 21st, 2019

@SailingFox I barely sleep and when I do I'm awake

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User Profile: SailingFox
SailingFox October 23rd, 2019

@Oneminutesober127 that must be so awful :(

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User Profile: XiaxiSerena
XiaxiSerena November 17th, 2019

@SailingFox

Back then when i didnt have my melatonin pills, i used to not sleep until like 7 AM and then sleep from 7 AM To 1 PM. Because i was afraid of just lying in bed and having to think.

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User Profile: Rebekahwriter13
Rebekahwriter13 October 23rd, 2019

When depressed I either sleep alot or not at all with insomnia. Sigh.

User Profile: kindEars2121
kindEars2121 October 23rd, 2019

Because your mind isn't in relaxing. You can sleep.when your mind in totally free.